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that there is plenty of scattered good (for all teaching is good) to be 

 done; and also pleity of possible subscribers to your magazine, when 

 it has taken a shape which will bear on them. 

 Believe me, 



Tour thorough well-wisher, 



C. KIIs^GSLEY, E.L.S., F.S.A., kc, 



[In one of the prospectuses in which The Geologist was an- 

 nounced, it was described as "a general gazette of Geology,'* 



a geological ' jS'otea and Queries ; ' " and it was with the view of 

 establishing a 2^"otes and Queries " department, or something equiva- 

 lent thereto, that students and others who might wish for information 

 were invited to send their questions to the editor of this magazine. 

 We beg leave to call particular attention to this invitation, which will 

 be found repeated this month on the second page of the cover. It is 

 gratifying to find our plan approved by a man so well qualified to give 

 an opinion on the subject as Mr. Kingsley ; and we hail his letter and 

 the recommendation it contains with great pleasure. "We hope that 

 some one or other of our readers, who may have studied the Geology of 

 the Isle of Purbeck, will have the goodness to reply to the questions 

 propounded by our correspondent. The latter will perceive that 

 we now commence a ''Notes and Queries'^ department which will, 

 we hope, eventually attain much larger dimensions, and will serve 

 effectually the purposes for which it is intended. — Ed. of Geologist.] 



PKOCEEDmGS OF THE WARWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS^ 

 AND ARCILELOGISTS' FIELD CLUB DURING THE PAST 

 SUMMER. 



Although this Society has only been established since July, 1854, the number 

 of members now amounts to nearly one hundred, and the meetings have been 

 most agreeable and successful. We think it may interest our readers if we give, 

 from time to time, a short account of the proceedings of the club ; and in order 

 to bring it up to the present year, we shall briefly review the labours of the 

 session concluded in October. 



The first meeting was held at Chipping Campden, in Gloucestershire, on 

 Tuesday, the 20th of May. A party of fifteen started from Warwick at 8.30, 

 reaching their destination at 11. Here they were joined by only three members 

 of the Cotswold Naturalist's Club, whom the Warwickshire Club hoped to have 

 met in full force, especially in their own county, but unforeseen causes prevented 

 the attendance of the most active labourers in the field, with the exception of 



